Shiny and New

“Do you believe that we can change the future? / Do you believe I can make you feel better?” In 2005, Madonna was past it. In the general vi...

"Born stubborn, me / will always be / before you count 123 / I will have grown my own private branch / of this tree" For all Björk...

"Your best friend agreed / Still / Pretty good year" Me and Tori Amos. We have an unstable relationship. She’s a moaning, melodram...

"The urge to feel your face / In blood, rushing to paint my handprint" Of all the many modes of public transport (bus, tram, airpl...

“You’re my favourite moment / You’re my Saturday” Ah, Goldfrapp. I am yet to completely penetrate their back catalogue to the point where I ...

"Never thought I would find a love so sweet / Never thought I would find someone like you" We made it clear at the start of this p...

“My heart had a crash when we spoke / I can’t fix what you broke" I really do love Gwen Stefani and always have done. Probably alwa...

"Watching it burning, it's beautiful and it's blue / and it's pitiful when it's through, it's the other half of me...

"Like a soul without a mind / In a body without a heart / I'm missing every part" I’ve briefly mentioned previously the se...

"Full mug my friends certainly familiar / Ah, hear that glitch say search the orbs" The story of Siobhan Donaghy is perhaps heart...

"Shot like an arrow going through my heart / That's the pain I feel / I feel whenever we're apart" My romance with...

"I think we waited long enough, baby / You know me only too well" Róisín Murphy released her second solo studio album, Overpowered...

"Sometimes it's like someone took a knife / Baby edgy and dull / And cut a six inch valley through / The middle of my soul" No...

“I don't wanna be the girl who laughs the loudest / Or the girl who never wants to be alone" P!nk’s “Sober” couldn’t have been mor...

"If you don't cheat or sleep around / Ain't nothin' wrong wit tastin your magic stick / Bet it taste like candy / Made...

"We're living in a den of thieves / Rummaging for answers in the pages" Regina Spektor is an extraordinary storyteller and wom...

"Imagine us together me driving you insane / You will give in to me / Don’t be afraid to play my game" I will never be able to...

"Hold up, you got a pretty strong team / Got somethin' on the bench that Kelis ain't seen" In 2006 when “Blindfold Me” was...

"Boy you're moving kinda slow / You gotta keep up now / There you go / That's just something that a man must do" Aside fro...

“I found a fox caught by dogs / He let me take him in my hands" The first time I heard Kate Bush’s “Hounds of Love” I was sitting on a ...